For over a year my free time has been spent turning this ‘LilyGo T-Dongle S3’ into hacking tool USB/WiFi/BT which I’ve named the USB Army Knife. This device is cheap, tiny, has a screen, SPI port, button and can do a ton of stuff with the ESP32-S3 inside. It has consumed me! 🧵

The State of the Mempool as of Wed Oct 2nd - 21:00 UTC Although the mempool now frequently clears transactions below ~2 sats/vb, it remains just under 100 blocks deep, with the lower strata largely unchanged for the last several months. So what's down there? 🧵

Join t-bast, Murch and myself to discuss Bitcoin Core 28.0, liquidity ads, dual funding, splicing, and BOLT12

What's Jameson Lopp's favorite on-chain #Bitcoin wallet? 🤔 Find out in the first installment of our impromptu #BitcoinWalletTalk series! 🔐 Got a favorite wallet we should include next time? Let us know! 🚀✨

🎉🎉🎉Finally! MuSig2 was merged into libsecp256k1, almost 5 years after the publication of the first paper draft. 🎉🎉🎉

Remotely reachable assertion crash in Bitcoin Core <v25.0: bitcoincore.org/en/2024/10/08/… Very happy that this is finally public, please upgrade your nodes if you haven't already!

Gloria Zhao (gloria), Niklas Gögge (Niklas Gögge), and b10c (b10c) discuss 3 recently announced Bitcoin Core vulnerabilities: - DoS vulnerability in headers sync - DoS vulnerability in inventory send queue - Crash vulnerability in compact block relay brink.dev/podcast/6-bitc…

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Really proud of how the mempool visualization turned out at Bitcoin Amsterdam. Thousands of people were treated to a view inside the 20 next block on the mempool and the 20 latest blocks on the chain. Big thanks to mononaut (tx/acc) for collaborating on this!

Make Bitcoin conferences weird again

A peak out of the bubble: See the comments to check how the average person responds to Bitcoin payments:

Join us in 30 minutes as we are joined by Antoine Poinsot (Antoine Poinsot) to discuss Newsletter #324

🚨 Stay vigilant, somebody pretending to be from @coindesk just tried (and FAILED) to gain access to our Twitter account. Thread 👇 🚨

New release: Electrum 4.5.6. Downloads and release notes: electrum.org/#download

It is insane what they are calling for and they deserve any pushback. But in the end the paper implies Bitcoin could be successful otherwise you would not be writing such a paper. From Bitcoin's last stand to distributional consequences if adoption continues to rise.

🚨 Heute abend ab 20:30 Youtube Livestream: 🏆 Wer Wird Satoshi Millionaire!! 🏆 Jeder kann mitspielen und gewinnen! Livegäste müssen bei Falschantworten trinken! Link below 👇

Socratic Seminar Online #5 findet am kommenden Mittwoch statt. Wir haben gerade die Themenliste veröffentlicht: bitcoinsocratic.online/2024/10/23/onl… Mittwoch, 23.10., 20.30 Uhr

Episode 01: BIP-114 MAST (Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree) Up next: Schnorr Signatures

Wie funktioniert ein Update in einem dezentralen Netzwerk und welche Rolle spielen Entwickler? Geht eine Gefahr für #Bitcoin von den Entwicklern aus? Emzy [ ₿⚡️] gibt uns spannende Einblicke in die (Weiter-) Entwicklung von Bitcoin 👇🏼👇🏼 fountain.fm/episode/FM70gX…